Important Notes: Again, several of the above products have 2 different versions of files that can be downloaded, which can cause updating problems.

Check the date of the files in the zip and the date of the Manifest.dsx file in the zip to make sure you have the current version.

The current ones are in most cases when multiple versions show in the Product Library the files at the bottom of the files that can be downloaded for a product.

Some products have slightly different names too between the different versions, which also is causing update problems. (Example, Gunner for David 5 has an older version that can be download that has DS in the name while the newer version doesn’t have DS in the DIM file name.)

All other items reported were updated or added to the list of the DIM files are listed when I knew them. The Poser CFs didn’t get updated in most cases from what I’m seeing.

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I also noticed that the one Read Me that mentioned an update, may have an error on it too.

I says the update occurred on 6-30-2013, but the files were last updated on 6-28-2013. Just re-downloaded and checked the file dates. So the Read Me may be incorrect or another update will be out soon.

General Comment:

According to DAZ 52 products got updated over the weekend. I’ve only got about 30 of those listed so if any one knows of any that were updated that were not reported please post them.

This is all the other Genesis stuff that got updated over the weekend that wasn’t on the list after the massive updating of yesterday some other things that got updated awhile back that I just learned had gotten updates.

All these items have been updated and added to the main list.

Also fixed some typos on the main list I noticed while doing the update.

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Note: The previous update had the date given for the DSON Core files as 6-27-2013 and came out over the weekend.

Thanks MickyBel,

I got the ones you mentioned updated on the list. Good think you mentioned Genesis 2 Female Starter Essentials got updated as it was another update since the version Vaskania had reported I noticed after checking the file dates. That wasn’t an oops whn you mention it.

Thanks, Kerya, just double checked the Gorilla for Genesis still showing the same ones I updated on the list on Sunday, but I’ll re download again latter today and see if another update is out and just not showing up yet for download.

Do I need to re download these again or is this only pertinent to DIM users? There used to be a “version” number like 1.1, 1.2 etc… listed when there was a revision, I don’t see that here or in the product library.

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Do I need to re download these again or is this only pertinent to DIM users? There used to be a “version” number like 1.1, 1.2 etc… listed when there was a revision, I don’t see that here or in the product library.

Yes, that’s something I’ve complained about in posts in a couple of threads.

Various people don’t want to use the DIM software for varying reasons; I won’t use it while it insists on using the Public folders for instance (optionally using it, like Poser for the location of its runtime on install, even recommending it, is fine; insisting on it is not). DAZ people keep saying you don’t have to use it, you can just manually download the DIM ZIP, open it and drag the content out from inside the content folder in it to install the content. This is true, but they’ve removed the version numbers from the names of the DIM zips, so we can no longer see if there’s been an update. Indeed, even if we download the DIM zip, the only way to tell if there’s been an update is to burrow into the zip and look at the datestamps on the files and compare them with those in our libraries. And given that they stopped sending out emails to notify of product updates several years ago, this effectively makes it impossible for us to manage our content - at least in terms of updates - without using the DIM software, which does notify of updates.

Indeed the ONLY reason I can think of for DAZ to have removed version numbers from the names of the content downloads is a deliberate and frankly petty attempt to try to force those of us holding out against using the DIM to have to use it anyway, while still being able to piously claim that, oh no, we don’t have to use it if we don’t want to.

This just makes me really angry at DAZ - and rather sickened by their antics too. It clearly would not be impossible or even difficult to include version numbers in the DIM zip names. Nor would it be impossible for them to email notifications of updates like they used to. To think : when a product I’ve bought from Renderosity is updated, I both (I) get an email notification, and (ii) the update (and the date of the update) is noted in my account Item List. If Renderosity can handle the matter, there’s no reason why DAZ can’t.

As it is, we are left with either or both (a) checking the ReadMes of products we have previously bought in the DAZ Documentation Center to see if an update note has been added (and sometimes they don’t add them, or not until many days later), and/or (b) checking the list here and the noted DIM files updated date against the dates of the content of the DIM ZIPs we’ve still got.

Really NOT a happy bunny.

In my case, I will NOT install the DIM software while it insists on using the Pubic folders. Full stop, end of story, whatever DAZ do. If I reach the point of thinking I simply can’t manage my DAZ content in any reasonable way without the DIM, then I will simply stop buying any content here rather than install DIM software that breaks standards in this way. There is simply no reason for DIM to HAVE to use the public folders, not one of the many hundreds of other programs I’ve installed and used on my Windows machines has insisted on using the Public folders, and I’m not having it. If DAZ want me to use their DIM software, all they have to do is what they should have done in the first place and make the folder location selectable by the user. Otherwise they need to make managing their content without DIM PRACTICABLE, not just theoretically possible, and put the version numbers back into the content download filenames.